Summary:
ZIP code 60450 has one listed high school, Morris Community High School, serving grades 9–12 with 926 students. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 95%, compared with 90% statewide; its dropout rate was 2% versus 2% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 17% versus 24%. Since no other high school is listed in the ZIP code, families can compare Morris with state results, but not with another local school. The clearest finding is that Morris exceeded the state in all nine reported subject-and-grade proficiency results, by 2.2 to 9.6 percentage points.
Morris stands out most in math compared with the state: its average advantage across grades 9, 10 and 11 was 7 percentage points, versus 5 in ELA and 4 in science. Its widest individual advantage was grade 9 math, with 52% proficient compared with 42% statewide; its smallest advantages were 2.2 points in grade 9 science and grade 10 ELA. There is no local top-versus-bottom school comparison because Morris is the only school in the data. Its other reported results are also favorable to the state comparison: graduation was 5 points higher, dropout was 1 point lower, and chronic absenteeism was 6 points lower.
Results remain above state rates, but the direction of test scores is worth watching: all nine of Morris’s matched results fell from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its average decline was 4 percentage points, compared with less than 1 point statewide. The average Morris-to-state advantage narrowed from 8 points to 5. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down, from 123rd of 698 schools (82nd percentile) in 2024–2025 to 170th of 620 (73rd percentile) in 2025–2026. For context, Morris had a student–teacher ratio of 17.6 in 2024–2025, and 20% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022; that income measure is older than the test results and is context, not an explanation for them.
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